Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half way through the soup course, with the high table still vacant of occupants, the diners were plunged into sudden darkness when the lights, which some few moments before had shown a slight uncertainty, went out. This apparently unforeseen failure of the electricity coincided with the entrance of President Lowell, who mounted the platform, a lighted candle in either hand. In another moment the lighting problem had been solved and into the once more gleaming dining room entered the associates of the House. Professor Coolidge the guests of honor, and in the rear, the members of the undergraduate committee. Dinner...
...will by no means be large enough to effect any sort of major change in Prohibition policy. But the eyes of their leaders are looking for results not in the 72nd Congress but in some Congress to follow, perhaps ten Congresses from now. Men like Nominee Morrow expect no sudden revulsion of public opinion on this issue but rather a gradual grinding down, seat by seat, such as the primaries of 1930 have already shown to be in progress, of the Dry Congressional Majority...
...victory last week Nominee La Follette went to the family homestead, Maple Bluff Farm near Madison, there acted as best man at his Senator-Brother's wedding (see p. 56). The bride: Rachel Wilson Young, since 1924 secretary to the Robert La Follettes, ? father & son. So sudden were the marriage plans that the Senator had to obtain special abrogation of the Wisconsin five-day application...
...course of the operetta has its normal ups and downs until the beginning of Act II, when all of a sudden blond, curly-headed Mr. Robertson starts a rough & tumble fight with Mr. Clements over the favors of Miss Terry. This event helps to differentiate Nina Rosa from its operatic contemporaries. It is really a swashbuckling, galvanated musical drama, of the sort which appeals to a faintly sadistic expectancy on the part of its spectators...
...diabetic] people who owe their lives to Dr. Banting. Am I not right, when I add, he wears with becoming humility, the crown of immortality?" Throughout the long day Professor Banting said scarcely a word. He may have been thinking, as many of his lauders were, of his sudden flight to prestige. Dates best mark that progress...